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CAR AUDIO EXPERTS NEEDED:What will adding an amp do to my music?

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Skiguy411

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Besides making it louder, will I really notice any difference in the clarity of the music?

Inside my car.....
Pioneer DEH-P3500 Head unit (50 watts peak (22 watts RMS) x 4)
2x Rockford Fosqate 5.25" full range, 80 watts (Rear)
2x Rockford Fosqate 4" full range, 60 watts (Front)
Infinity Basslink 200 watt sub

If I will notice a difference, can anyone recommend a good (cheap) amp for what I got. Car audio is a new subject for me.
 
You would notice a difference in clarity if the signal your head unit is pushing is distorted in any way. Speakers can take a lot more "clean" power than they can "distorted/dirty" power. This has been my experience and may not be what everyone has found...
 
US Acoustics, JBL or Coustic. All are good price / performance amps.
Sound quality itself shouldnt improve noticeable at low volumes. But, you'll have the ability to get much louder and still keep a good clean signal to the speakers.
 
How much you looking for to spend on an amp?

If price isn't a concern, I'd go with Tube Driver Blue 2ch. I have it and it sounds NICE. Once you listen to that, you don't want to go back to ordinary amps.

Otherwise, I'd go with Phoenix Gold, PPI, or alpine amps.
 
This is one area that me and Glen differ. Alot. I feel you'll definately notice a difference bny adding an amp. I went from approx 800 watts to around 1500 and could notice the difference, and this was on my sub. With mids and highs I feel it would be even more noticable.
No, I wont bother argueing it yet again with Glen either. We've done it in the past. It boils down to we're runnin the same race, just in different ways. Thats one of the great things about audio, theres so many different ways to do it and none are any more right then any other. 🙂
 
That reminds me Glen, do you have some links on the audio information stored on CD. In the thread about bass you stated the maximum recordable limits etc etc. I think you made a typo in it but nonetheless I was interested in where you got the info.
 
Info on amplifier differences comes from the people that invented the ABX testing methodology that demonstart in double blind testing no one has ever been able to even distinguish one amp from another in side by side testing more than 50% of the time in trails typically involving 100 tests.

As far as the bass cd's, well someoen simple took a computer PC and had it find the recording level and HZ. I iwll look for link.
 
In ABX testing you have a switch that lets you hear A, B, and the X, which is randomly either A or B.
You can go back and forth between all three as long as you want. When you are satisfied, you write down weather X is A or B. That is one trail. If you are totally guessing, then after 100 trails you will have %50 correct answers.

using this methodology, no one has ever scored much better than %60 which is basically within statistical aberation. I have no opion on amplifiers, but I do knwo science has weighed in on the matter, and I trust the results.
 
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